I need newer M/S Office ....but which version?

grumpycrab

inspectorperez said:

license keys can also be purchased from Groupon 

While voucher sites like Groupon, wowcher etc should be considered safe places to buy Microsoft licences, I think its only fair to advise potential buyers to expect a quite long-winded buying and license activating process. And not to be surprised if the activation takes more than 1 attempt. 

chrisw

I have the Office 2007 discs from when I had my previous computer. I've since installed it on my new computer and also my laptop without any issues. 

joeypesci

molerat said:

joeypesci said:

J_B said:

Are you planning on ditching your old PC or keeping it?

If the former, you can uninstall (or maybe disassociate) Office from old and install on new *but* just check that MS are happy with you doing this, as there used to be issues, don't know if this is still the case.

You can transfer it over. OEMs you weren't supposed to but the checks weren't strict and you were never going to prison for violating it.

Never had any problems moving Office to a new machine.  Admittedly mostly genuine with disc and licence copies but have done a couple of OEMs.

Yeah, you pretty much never run into an issue, I've done it with all my Windows installs, but its technically against the EULA. But as its one user on here, MS ignore it. Its people that do it for profit they go after.

The keys sold cheaply are VLC, MAK keys normally stolen from business' accounts of other ways to access them. I'm an IT admin at work and have access to all the MAK keys. I could easily sell them but never would, its technically fraud. They are useful in a business if testing out software. Each key activated that the company can't account for it an audit is then still charged to that company. Unless of course they admit all their keys have been compromised.